January 30th
1649
England's King Charles I was beheaded.
1836
Betsy Ross died on this date.
1882
The 32nd President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was born in Hyde Park, New York.
1933
Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany.
1933
The first episode of the "Lone Ranger" radio program was broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan.
1948
Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by a Hindu extremist.
1962
Two members of the "Flying Wallendas" high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit, Michigan.
1964
The United States launched Ranger VI, an unmanned spacecraft carrying television cameras to crash-land on the moon.
1968
During the Vietnam War, the Tet Offensive began as Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese provincial capitals.
1972
Thirteen Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as "Bloody Sunday."
1979
The civilian government of Iran announced it had decided to allow Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who'd been living in exile in France, to return.
1981
An estimated two million New Yorkers turned out for a ticker-tape parade honoring the freed American hostages from Iran.